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Table 2. Sample Misleading or Inaccurate Statements about the 1945 Memex Article.<br />
A precursor concept to the modern personal computer … also called the Rapid Selector<br />
(http://www.homoexcelsior.com/omega.db/datum/computer_science/memex/8683)<br />
Memex was, basically, a complicated analogue computer<br />
(http://www.aedo-to.com/eng/inspiration/future/realizzati/01/art01.html)<br />
[the Memex article] hinted at the potential of using television to provide network links<br />
(http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~saul/essays/02computer.html)<br />
Unmistakably in this [the Memex article] is the technology now known as search by millions and<br />
known as information retrieval (IR) by tens of thousands.<br />
<strong>For</strong> <strong>Peer</strong> <strong>Review</strong><br />
(http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=148&page=1)<br />
memex: Vannevar Bush's conception of the computer as universally accessible electronic library<br />
(http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/misc/index.php?page=net+beginnings&parent=net+history&printme=tr<br />
ue)<br />
Dr. Bush foresaw a computer designed for the purposes of applications other than number<br />
manipulation. He called it the Memex.<br />
(http://www.thocp.net/hardware/xerox_star.htm)<br />
[the Memex article] proposed linking all the world's libraries with all the world's knowledge via a<br />
system he called Memex<br />
(http://www.flora.org/oldfolks/ch2.html)<br />
[the Memex article is] the first visionary articulation of the digital age … Central to his vision of<br />
the memex was the notion that sound would circulate through the system, available for easy<br />
retrieval and manipulation<br />
(http://www.nothing.org/osc/FreezeFrame.htm)<br />
2t-S-1Ed-D-P<br />
Memex machine, a hybrid microfilm computer developed in the forties<br />
(http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/drwswebb/lore/1_3/tropeano.htm)<br />
[the Memex article describes] a desk filled with microfilm, shrunken photographs, tiny movies,<br />
and miniature audio tapes<br />
(http://www.kenjordan.tv/Whats%20That%20Sound.doc)<br />
[the Memex article describes] his vision of a distributed MEMEX in which he outlined the<br />
possibility of building digital network computers that incorporate multimedia functions and use of<br />
Compact Disc (CD)<br />
(http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/d.mwanza/phd-thesis/Chapt2.pdf)<br />
John Wiley & Sons<br />
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